On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, pitz wrote:
And with the V20 having a superset of the 8088 features, you could actually run more programs with it than you could with a standard PC-XT.
Indeed - the V20 is compatible with a 186, which means almost any code that needs a 286 and doesn't rely on protected mode should run on it, provided it doesn't actually check for a 286.
-uso.